Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It was extraordinary that the document was presented at a public meeting. The document was relevant to the work of the analysis service but it did not have the chance to sign off on it. I believe this to be a very serious error. I asked Ms West and Ms Galligan whether they thought the statement that it was an oversight was credible. Ms West responded that she was not sure she could conclude that it was just an oversight and that, going by what she had been told and looking at it through her own lens, she would find it difficult to believe. I also put the question to Ms Josephine Feehily on 21 March and she responded that it was an inadequate document and inaccurate in several respects. She also said:

I can see where the Deputy is going with it, but I am trying to be fair and think what was in somebody's mind in sending us a piece of paper at 8.30 p.m. I do not believe, however, that it was an oversight.

We are trying to understand how this happened, how this document ended up in the public domain at that meeting and presented as though there were no difficulties with it, and how the key office was not consulted and asked to sign off on it. Ms Galligan and Ms West do not believe it was an oversight and Ms Feehily does not believe it was an oversight. It has been clearly documented that enormous pressure was put on these two individuals and on Dr. Gurchand Singh to sign off on it over a period of two or three days. Their work was also being contested, so I want to understand why they were not consulted. If it was not an oversight, what was it? What was the basis for not consulting them?